CONTEXT: Model-Driven Engineering provides a new landscape for dealing with
traceability in software development. OBJECTIVE: Our goal is to analyze the current state of …

What is a domain-specific language (DSL)? How do we use modeling for building systems
effectively? How are domain-specific languages relevant in practice? How complex and …

Harnessing metamodels to engineer application domains is at the core of Model-Driven
Engineering. A large number of artifacts pursuing a common scope are defined starting from …

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) proposes to modularize complex software-intensive
systems using multiple models where each module serves a specific concern. These …

Runtime monitoring is critical for ensuring safe operation and for enabling self-adaptive
behavior of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Monitors are established by identifying runtime …

Understanding modern software products is challenging along several dimensions. In the
past, much attention has been focused on the logical and physical architecture of the …

Successful architecting of complex systems requires reconciling heterogeneous viewpoints
expressed by the stakeholders involved in the development process, including domain and …

A central aspect of architecting is architecture description. Architecture descriptions take
many forms and serve many purposes throughout the life cycle of development, operation …

Contemporary software systems contain a large number of artifacts expressed in multiple
languages, ranging from domain-specific languages to general purpose languages. These …

In the past decade, several electronic data exchange processes between public authorities
have been established by the German public administration. In the context of various legacy …